Merle Dandridge
Biography
Merle Dandridge is a Japanese-American actress who was born in Okinawa, Japan. Dandridge is primarily a stage actress, but has had several roles in television. She has gained a wider audience as the voice of Alyx Vance in the award-winning action game Half-Life 2 and its sequels, Episode One, Episode Two. Her father was an African-American US serviceman from Memphis and her mother was a local Okinawan of Korean and Japanese descent. As well as Okinawa, Dandridge has lived in Sacramento, California, at Beale Air Force Base, and later at Offutt Air Force Base (home to the then-Strategic Air Command) in Bellevue, Nebraska, where she spent the majority of her childhood. She attended Papillion La Vista High School and participated in the play production class and theater department there. She then attended the Theatre Conservatory at Roosevelt University (currently called the Chicago College of Performing Arts) with a scholarship that she earned at the International Thespian Festival.
Known For
All Movies (12)
- The Electric State2025 · as News Anchor
- Grounded II: Making The Last of Us Part II2024 · as Marlene (archive footage) (uncredited)
- Block Party2022 · as Crystal Maitland
- The Right Girl2020
- Blithe Spirit2020 · as Elvira
- The Disney Family Singalong - Volume II2020 · as Self
- Resurrect2018 · as Alice
- Disney's Broadway Hits at London's Royal Albert Hall2016 · as Herself
- The Last of Us: One Night Live2014 · as Self / Marlene
- Matadors2010 · as Brooke Comas
- Nothing But the Truth2008 · as Celia
- I'm Paige Wilson2007 · as Gloria
All TV Shows (29)
- Secret Level2024 · as Liz Mutton (voice)
- Citadel2023 · as Joana
- The Last of Us2023 · as Marlene
- The Flight Attendant2020 · as Kim Hammond
- Truth Be Told2019 · as Zarina Killebrew
- Tamron Hall2019 · as Self - Guest
- Station 192018 · as Natasha Ross
- Greenleaf2016 · as Grace Greenleaf
- Rosewood2015 · as Charlotte
- Stalker2014 · as Dean Lisa Miner
- The Night Shift2014 · as Gwen Gaskin
- Star-Crossed2014 · as Vega
- Perception2012 · as Robyn Sherman
- The Newsroom2012 · as Maria Guerrero
- Ringer2011 · as Anabel Morris
- Suits2011 · as Leah
- Love Bites2011 · as Krista
- Nikita2010 · as Zoe
- The Deep End2010 · as Jennifer Hutchins
- NCIS: Los Angeles2009 · as CIA Officer Nicole Borders
- Lie to Me2009 · as D.A. Jill Ottinger
- The Mentalist2008 · as Lydia Faulk
- Sons of Anarchy2008 · as Rita Roosevelt
- The Comeback2005 · as Ridley Macintosh
- NCIS2003 · as Marcy Carruthers
- CSI: Miami2002 · as Stacy Garrett
- 242001 · as Kristen Smith
- Angel1999 · as Lacey Shepard
- Third Watch1999 · as Nikki